I almost fell for posting my personal thoughts, but then I caught myself. Anything I say will be construed by someone as "stupid", it's the popular thing, knee-jerk opposition, insult, and refusal to accept or hear a non-identical pov from a person from outside of one's clique, so there's really no point anymore. The only comment that's worth posting is "Keep up the good work, Anne."

Translation: We must stop the process of applying political correctness against our enemies known and unknown. Political correctness is becoming the death of us and everyone knows it, but because it appears to be and looks so benign, no one cares. Well, at least those that know about it do.

Anything I say will be construed by someone as "stupid", it's the popular thing, knee-jerk opposition, insult, and refusal to accept or hear a non-identical pov from a person from outside of one's clique, so there's really no point anymore. The only comment that's worth posting is "Keep up the good work, Anne (sic)."

What a stupid comment.

On many levels.

So does that just make it arithmetically more stupid? Or does it take some kind of genius to post something so stupid?

I have a lot of Canadian friends. Unsusprisingly, as they're from BC, they're overwhelmingly reflexive leftists.

And there's no difference at all between them and American leftists (and to be fair, the equivalent right-wingers) in their unfairness to the Other, willingness to believe anything that reinforces existing beliefs, and the other common failings of mankind.

Some things never change.

(Hell, I bet the same thing happens to my libertarian fellow-travelers on occasion. It's just so small a sample size I can't judge...)

This is a standard liberal dodge. Their real enemy is conservatives, so when forced to criticize Mulims, liberals insist that the real problem is fundamentalism. Thus Islamic extremism becomes morally equivalent with Christian fundamentalism. Voila! Mission accomplished.

Of course it's an ignorant and dishonest maneuver.

The real problem with Muslims is not how they believe, but what they believe. Liberals are unwilling to come to grips with that.

Yes. It can be argued (accurately, imo) that the Jihadists are the only ones reading the Koran correctly, i.e., the problem is ISLAM per se and all it stands for. "Moderate Muslims" have to ignore or distort basic tenets of their faith in order to square it with modernity in the same way American "Cafeteria Catholics"ignore, "modify" theirs yet still consider themselves to be "good Catholics."

It explains why no Martin Luther or Martin Luther King emerge to reform Islam, and why so-called moderate Muslims only work to stop the extremists when the extremists jeopardize the moderates.

It's like the KKK: only a very few participated in the lynchings. The rest of the Klanspeople, the "moderates," did not, but neither did they act to stop the lynchings because deep down they believed in white supremacy.